Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo became the fifth-highest paid player in the NFL last month by signing a six-year, $108 million contract extension that will keep him in Dallas through 2019. He dropped out of the top five on Friday when Aaron Rodgers signed a five-year, $122 million extension ($18 million per year). Here are the five players in the league who make more per year than Romo (with rank, player, team, position, annual salary):

On ESPN's NFL Live this week, analysts Tedy Bruschi and Tim Hasselbeck didn't take kindly to Jerry Jones' comments about quarterback Tony Romo.

Jones said that with Romo's new contract comes an expectation that Romo will spend more time, "Peyton Manning-type" time at the Cowboys' facilities.

“Teammates now have something planted in their heads now," Bruschi said. "When you’re walking down the hallways down there at the facilities of the Dallas Cowboys and you see Tony Romo and you see him come, you know what you’re going to do? You’re going to check your watch. When he leaves, you know what you’re going to do? You’re going to look at your watch and try to calculate how many hours he’s been there that day.

"This is a bad move by Jerry Jones. I don’t know what he’s doing. Sometimes you’ve got to keep your mouth shut Jerry Jones, but you just put a lot of extra pressure on your quarterback and it wasn’t even necessary.”

Hasselbeck agreed.

“It’s awful," Hasselbeck said. "Let’s say that he does want Tony to be there more because he wasn’t. Let’s say Tony was just doing the norm. Have the conversation with Tony. Why in the world the rest of us would need to know or it would somehow benefit the team is absolutely ridiculous, and that’s why this to me, just reeks of people were maybe scratching their head a little bit about why Tony Romo got the deal.”

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